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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Car seat-check, Smiles- check, Man staring- check, check, check!

The day we went to pick Will up was a day we WILL NEVER, EVER FORGET!!!

We cried, we laughed, we cried, we laughed...and then some!

It was a day we didn't know if we were bringing a baby home or not- it was a day we were fully relying on God's will in our lives!

I am going to share with you just a few of the funny things that happened that day as I said I would in my last post, you can catch up here- If you haven't read it, you won't understand the BMW...so go back and read it before you go on!

Because bringing a baby home was a SURPRISE to our parents, (if we brought him home), we had to fake needing to go "somewhere" so my mom would watch Nathan and so she wouldn't question why we weren't at lunch at her house with all my siblings...after all, it was Grandparent's Day~ And a Sunday~ so normally, it would have been church and then to both sets of grandparents house! BUT...not this day!

When we left Nathan at my parent's house, we were so nervous!

It was lightly raining when we headed toward the destination of our baby, maybe.

We had each other and a BMW convertible.

What else did we need, right?

Well...EVERYTHING!

We didn't have anything for a baby anymore, other than Matthew's special things I kept, but everything else, crib, high chair, bouncy seat, and ALL the rest of the stuff, we had donated to charity and we were empty handed!

We didn't even realize it until we were headed to our destination, so we decided we better stop at Walmart!

Oh yep- because Walmart is where you go to get those things, right?

So, there we stood in the baby department, not knowing if we were bringing a baby home or not...we had a buggy and walked around like we were in the candy store but couldn't have any sugar! Know what I mean?

We were scared to put anything into our empty basket!

We started...

And forever later, we were done.

We purchased a baby blanket, a pack of bottles, a pack of diapers, a pacifier, wipes, a car seat/ stroller combo and that is all.

We ran into RW's sister in the baby section and we had a nervous giggle! She was buying something for our (maybe) baby.

When we checked out, we headed to that beautiful little car! Our family sized Expedition, parked at home...(what were we thinking?)

Well, it was sprinkling rain, so RW popped that tiny little trunk of the car, guess what? People with little bitty convertibles don't travel with a car seat/ stroller combo in the trunk! Nope, wasn't going to happen!

RW tried, he pushed that box, and it wasn't happening.

So, he takes it OUT of the box and fits the oversize stroller into the trunk (barely) and sets the car seat in the back seat, then there we were, rain coming down heavier with a giant empty box! Head hanging down, we left it in the empty buggy...we didn't have anywhere to put the box, we were getting soaking wet and I remember apologizing that we were "littering" in the parking lot!

So, we left and the image of the empty box in the empty buggy was in my head. BUT, it was a very special day, we were very short on time and what if someone needed that empty box, right? ;) Yes, someone needed an empty box! (an empty wet box, right?)

Okay, so now what?

Well, we decided that since we had such a hard time fitting the stroller into the trunk, we should probably stop somewhere and hook that car seat up so we didn't look like amateurs when we were picking up our baby. (maybe)

Stopped, we did.

We pulled into a gas station that was covered, because it was raining now, raining.

There was a man to the right of us filling up his diesel truck and his boat carefully watching the two of us...

I bet he still remembers us.

Why? Well, let me tell you why!

It had been six years since we had to place a baby in a car seat. Six years, they change a lot. And we had definitely never put a car seat in the back of a convertible.

The challenge began.

RW tried for about five minutes to figure out how to strap the seat in with the top of the car on...then he had the brilliant idea to take the top off so he could maneuver it better and I was saying "let me just read the instructions on the tag..." He took the tag off and handed it to me, that didn't help. {I am not a fan of instructions at all, that's the hairdresser in me, I guess...oh and BTW, if you think your hairdresser is reading instructions and measuring things, think again! ;) }

Back to the seat...

The man still staring at us...

Picture it- a 200 plus lb man climbing over and in the back of a little car with the top off, it was like watching an episode of the Jolly Green Giant playing with a Matchbox car! It was so funny!

1 comment:

That was an awesome story!!! I can totally see it in my mind because when the phone call came asking me if I would take a 2 day old baby boy, I had a bit of a carseat issue, and a pants issue..... I may have to blog about it. Thanks for the laugh! So glad you prayed for God's Will

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